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From: "Alex Vinokur" <alexvn@come.to>
Subject: Re: ls -l after chmod
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 08:00:00 -0000
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"Harig, Mark A." <maharig@idirect.net> wrote in message news:BADF3C947A1BD54FBA75C70C241B0B9E10AB02@ex02.idirect.net...
> 1. Double-click on your 'My Computer' icon on your desktop to open it.
>
> 2. Right-click on your drive(s) icon and select 'Properties' from the
> menu.
>    The Local Disk Properties dialog should be displayed.
>
> 3. Click on the 'General' tab (the default) if it is not already
> selected.

Thanks.

>    The file system type should be listed as NTFS or FAT32 (or, possibly,
> FAT).

My system is FAT32.

>
>    If your disk's file system is not NTFS, then you might want to
> consider converting it to NTFS using Windows 'convert' utility program
> (read Windows Help for more information about this utility).
>
> From http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html, we have:
>
> (no)ntsec - if set, use the NT security model to set UNIX-like
> permissions on files and processes. The file permissions can only be set
> on NTFS partitions. FAT doesn't support the NT file security.
>
> So, without NTFS, 'chmod' won't work.
>
[snip]

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